La Petite Issue 18 | Page 102

Q&A WITH hugo loves tiki Q: Where are you from? I was born in California and raised in Indiana. Q: Where is your brand based? We are based 20 minutes south of Indianapolis where I grew up. Q: Will you tell us about how Hugo Loves Tiki began? I was an alternative wedding photographer and had just moved home from Chicago to start a family. When I moved, I started to realize wedding photography wasn’t a true enough passion to be a career for me. I really started to dread weddings, but I knew I did not want to go back to a job where I had a boss (those environments do not really work well with my independent personality).